Sakai Virtual Conference November 4, 2015

1. The Next Generation of
Teaching and Learning Tools
Charles Severance
Sakai PMC Chair
LongSight, Inc.
University of Michigan

3. 816 Results

4. om/2014/09/05/beyond-the-lms-newcastle-university/

5. http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/journal/decoding-digital-pedagogy-pt-1-beyond-the-lms/

6. http://gettingsmart.com/2015/02/beyond-lms-next-gen-learning-platforms/
• Weak demand articulation (i.e., slow shift to digital, varied
requirements, tortured purchasing procedures that favor
low bids rather than quality articulation);
• Historic underinvestment in EdTech (compared to other
$1T sectors); and
• Well intentioned federal, state and philanthropic projects
have chilled investment and delayed progress.

8. www.beyondlms.org

12. My recent trip to Hawaii
(to give a keynote talk about MOOCs and education)

14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano#/media/File:Lava_entering_sea_-_Hawaii.png
Where is the bloody lava?

16. Standards
• IMS Common Cartridge – 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.0
• IMS Learning Tools Interoperability 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2
• IMS LTI Content Item - Public Draft
• IMS LTI Roster Services – WG Draft
• IMS LTI Outcomes Services – in WG Draft
• IMS Caliper 1.0
• IMS OneRoster – Rest-based SIS integration
• IMS CASA – WG – Draft
• IMS CC / EPUB 3.0 Coordination

17. https://www.imsglobal.org/specs/lticiv1p0
IMS
Content
Item

18. IMS Content Item Launch
Content
Repository
LMS
APP
APP
APP
Launch Picker
Launch Picker

19. IMS Content Item Return
Content
Repository
LMS
APP
APP
APP
APP
URL, Configuration
IMS Common
Cartridge (ZIP File)

22. Standards Score Card
LMS LTI 1.x Common
Cartridge
Content
Item
LTI 2.x Caliper
Canvas A A A B+
Sakai A A A- A-
Moodle A A B B
D2L A A
Blackboard A A

23. Who are the Competitors
in the New Space?

24. D'Arcy Norman's Law of eLearning
Tool Convergence
Any eLearning tool, no matter how
openly designed, will eventually
become indistinguishable from a
Learning Management System once
a threshold of supported use-cases
has been reached.
http://darcynorman.net/2013/02/15/normans-law-of-elearning-tool-convergence/

25. D'Arcy Norman's Law of eLearning
Tool Convergence
Any eLearning tool, no matter how
openly designed, will eventually
become indistinguishable from a
Learning Management System once
a threshold of supported use-cases
has been reached.
http://darcynorman.net/2013/02/15/normans-law-of-elearning-tool-convergence/

26. Top Teaching Destinations [1]
• online.dr-chuck.com - 7800
• Udacity – Not reported (assume 50% of edX)
• edX – 5 million
• Coursera – 16 million
• My two courses are approaching their 1 millionth enrollment
• CodeAcademy – 24 Million (2014 number)
• Edmodo - ??
[1] Single instance cloud-hosted learning platforms intent on making money

27. http://www.edmodo.com/public/si791-sak/group_id/161836
Contact Chuck for Edmodo group code
January 2011

28. http://gettingsmart.com/2015/02/beyond-lms-next-gen-learning-platforms/

29. http://gettingsmart.com/2015/02/beyond-lms-next-gen-learning-platforms/

31. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjgg63cGRLY June 2011
Startup Weekend EDU San Francisco

35. http://gettingsmart.com/2015/02/beyond-lms-next-gen-learning-platforms/

36. Next Generation
Teaching and Learning
The "post-LMS"

37. Tenets of the NGTL Movement
• NGTL LMSs will be small with few features
• They will scale from hundreds of students to millions
• Content repositories will be plentiful
• Will have better powerful authoring tools than LMSs
• Most features come from app stores (also plentiful)
• It will scale from hundreds to millions
• There will be whole new customers and revenue flows
• Students
• Teachers

38. LMS/UI
LMS API
Provider
Content
Repository
APP/UI
APP/UI
APP/UI
LMS/UI
LMS/UI
APP
APP
APP
APP
APP

39. Early Exemplars In The Space
• Repositories
• Blackboard xpLor
• Canvas Commons
• App Store:
• Canvas EduAppCenter
• ELMS Network – Drupal + LTI Provider
• Tsugi – www.tsugi.org
• Small LMS + App Store + Straight to Teacher
• Edmodo – App Store not LTI
• Schoology – App Store with LTI

40. www.elmsln.org

41. www.tsugi.org

45. Sakai / OAE Survival Plan
• Standards
• App Stores
• Use them seamlessly
• Become an App Store
• Content Repositories
• Use them seamlessly
• Become content a content repository (with editing, versioning,
etc)
• Don't fall behind, prepare to be inverted

46. Which LMS will Lead?
LMS LTI 1.x Common
Cartridge
Content
Item
LTI 2.x Caliper
Canvas A A A B+
Sakai A A A- A-
Moodle A A B B
D2L A A
Blackboard A A

47. Open Source must lead the
market into Next Generation
Teaching and Learning systems
P.S. This needs some investment... And a workshop or two.